Dr. Mills For The Osteopaths

DR. MILLS FOR THE OSTEOPATHS

MADE A FIGHT IN LANSING

For the Right of Osteopaths to Practice in Michigan and Against Nottingham Bill

Dr. W. S. Mills was before the health committee of the house at Lansing Tuesday on business relative to the Nottingham bill concerning the practice of osteopathy. This bill repeals the sections of the Chandler law governing the practice of osteopathy in Michigan, and, if enacted, would leave osteopaths without any legal standing or right to practice in the state. The Nottingham bill proposes to require all osteopaths to take an examination in all subjects required of medical practitioners, including materia medica. Now, the osteopathic practitioners are willing to take the examination, it is said, in all subjects except this, but do not wish to take that In their preparatory courses because their practice does not involve that subject at all. They also desire a representative upon the examining board of the state, or else, a separate board.

A large representation of osteopaths was present in Lansing yesterday, all making a warm fight for their rights It would seem that their demands are just and proper. They certainly ought to be represented upon the board fore which they are compelled to take an examination. It is understood that the medical examining board refuses to concede the demands of the osteopaths because, they say, it would place them on the same footing with the regular practitioners. But this does not necessarily follow. This looks like another narrow and bigoted fight on the part of the older practitioners, after the kind of that which existed so long between the allopaths and the homeopaths. To the layman it looks as though it would be the proper thing to show a real, genuine American spirit toward this newer school of practitioners.